skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York has a much better night life, and comparable but slightly cheaper rent than SF. The culture is much more interesting (IMO), and the companies here are very diverse and full of talent.

Bigger companies have made also investments here, most notably Google (3k people, a whole city block, and whole products reside here). Others include Facebook, Twitter, and eBay.

You might find that in the Bay Area tech is all around you – that's not quite true in New York. It's growing and fairly large at this point, but only for the people that are in the scene. There are tons of other scenes in the city (e.g. Fashion, Finance, Food). Overall, I prefer the diversity of industry and culture in New York – it makes it a more interesting place to be. The weather is decidedly worse in new york when compared to that of the bay area, but fall and spring can be beautiful here.

Source: Have worked at tech companies in SF and New York
You should open source it :) I'd love to modify it to work with PHP by default.
I disagree, I've been working on business-area applications for 5 years now and not once have I said to myself, "Man I wish I had some Latex knowledge to work on this document!".

It's just non-existant unless you actually need the math notations and whatnot.
It could give the other way, though. I have never met a Java/Sun Certified whatever that was competent to develop software.
Static assets are taking a very long time to load for me.

I noticed, for example, that the Select a Color image under Learn More is 1024x786 and weighing in at 590kb despite only being displayed at a size of 282x212. I'd recommend you do something about that.
Show HN: Cleaver - simple, interactive HTML slideshows from JSON
To improve the preview for Windows and Linux users, why don't you use Typekit with Nimbus Sans (a rather accurate Helvetica clone)? Many designers and typophiles won't trust a service that doesn't accurately render the type on a typographic product. Also, I'd rather see the flat front of a shirt than the current view when previewing how the text will be set.
Santa Monica is where most of the tech scene is at in LA
Works fine for me, but it would be great to be able to adjust the line height of the text.
Do you use Google+ at an enterprise?

If not, you seem to have missed the point of this article.
Vimium recently started crashing my tabs on Javascript-heavy sites; I had to disable it, sadly.
Wow, that is the sort of bug that leads to installers accidentally wiping hard drives.
I'm 37 years of age I've been programming since the age of 7 (1982), and programming for the Internet since 17 (1992); that's 30 years of software development and 20 years of Internet/network programming; mostly web and mostly for government or in commercial environments and in more languages and frameworks that I care to remember.

Today I consider my judgement, that is to say, my ability to forsee the path of a project, or anticipate and avoid complexity to be better than it ever has been in the past, and think this is one of my strongest and most marketable skills.

Yes I still learn new things (faster than ever), and yes I am still very productive.

Am I a "digital native"?
If we assume the grad students are in on it, it's because they'd want to move their careers forward. They're probably working in well established fields where returns for effort spent are diminishing. See the chart at http://cognitivesocialweb.com/home/2012/8/10/the-singularity... So a combination of making no progress after years of effort, careerism or trying to stay in their field may motivate fraud.

But I wouldn't be so sure about grad students who may handle smaller pieces of the whole project always being in on it.

And either way, without fraud in these stupid difficult fields a lot more smartypants would be on Wall St., also committing fraud.
Exactly! I would upvote you twice if I could, so this point comes up more prominently The main article itself conveniently glosses over it, and makes one of those scary, "mountain out of a molehill" case: if big evil corporate fat cat wins, then, >>all your base are belong to us<<

But then again, that kind of news wouldn't sell papers, or would it?
Because iOS brain damaged the industry.
Yes, like requirements, prototyping, user interfaces, minimizing complexity, profiling and performance, unit-to-usability testing, metrics, refactoring, performance monitoring...

All that ugly stuff that's wrong with the industry.
Awesome, thanks mate. Better typographic accuracy on non-Mac OSes is definitely on the list.
I don't really buy who "kids who grew up with touch devices" might make better programmers than the generation of people who built Windows, NeXTStep, etc, who are in their 50's and 60's right now. Hell, Knuth is 74.

The fundamentals of programming, as an engineering field, haven't really changed since the 1980's.
Constructive criticism: The first page looked like an opt-in or a launchrock page. I almost left because I didn't want to sign up for anything. Looks cool, though.
how much you work at a salary job is a constant negotiation between the worker and the boss.

It sounds like your boss screwed the pooch on that one, though. Killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.

It's a hard negotiation, really, for both parties, as different people function differently at different stress levels. But yeah; most bosses optimize for but-in-seat time rather than for actual productivity, which, of course, does not increase shareholder value or employee happiness; It's bad for everyone.

Personally, I think it's a symptom of 'optimizing for appearances' - the managers run the companies, sure, but they don't own them, so they don't care about real productivity, only about the perception of productivity.
Thanks for the warning! I'm still ironing out performance. I'll take a look at that one in particular right now.
What is a Rack app?
The kind created by an author so devoted to not being mistaken that he's been legitimately worried about being taken in by arbitrary moral fashions and putting entire ideas off limits.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

tl,dr: You have to consider heresy seriously if you want to think clearly. Restrictions on expressing heretical ideas are harmful, though it's unsafe to disregard them where they exist.
Good call! Maybe increase the size of the call-to-action?
Saving is a good thing.

Never spending is a bad thing.

My parent poster was questioning the latter. Not the former.
(Add overflow-x:hidden; to the .splash .foreground .inner element to get rid of the scrollbar on the bottom.)

It's creative and different but I'll bet you an arm and leg that if you made the site more normal with a regular landing page you'd get higher conversion. Putting a lot of information in a little tiny box that you have to scroll through is just bad usability.

Why doesn't the custom t-shirt making just load on the landing page underneath the call to action. Why hide it from users? If you have a lot to load just ditch the full screen background image.
> In other words, if it's possible to do great work in short amounts of time, why do most successful entrepreneurs end up working very long hours to make their companies succeed?

Because there's a lot to do and very few people around to do it. One of the distinguishing aspects of a startup is that the initial team is very nearly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of things that need doing, but don't yet have the revenue to hire people and distribute that load properly. No founder is sitting around at 3pm going, "Well, now what do I do for the next two hours?" They're going to sneak in ten minutes of product development, answer a dozen emails, wash dishes in the office kitchen, whatever.

Once a company stabilizes (meaning that its revenue stream is mostly predictable and dependable), it can ramp up employee count to the point where the load is more sanely distributed and there's no longer a reason to work very long hours because everything is properly parallelized.
What is the argument in favor of that?
No white on black?!
A Java Fork/Join Framework
You're right, the box is a bit constricting. I like the idea of dropping the editor below the splash. Thanks man! I'll probably do that.
Right now, no :(

Unfortunately, our supplier uses a DTG printer which uses CMYK inks. So no light on dark... at least not yet.

I was bummed too.
I wonder how this relates to the Decline Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_effect
"I'm talking about companies that became monopolies only because their lobbyists convinced lawmakers to protect their businesses."

Don't be ridiculous. No American media company is, or is ever likely to become, a monopoly. What they depend on is a limited set of property rights in products they make or buy. That's very different from being a actual monopoly.
You need to add error info on your "Add a Resume" form. Just wanted to check things out, but couldn't get past that page (presumably because I omitted a field for personal reasons).
> Bram Moolenaar is the main author of Vim.

Note that this article was written in 2000. 12 (!) years later, we have amazing plugins that make :make rather quaint.

Most important vim command?

:help uganda
It seems to be a bit cheaper than CustomInk with no quantity requirement but once you go above 15-20 shirts, you can get volume discount through CustomInk. Is the $29 for double-sided printing?
"Consider the idea of running a mailserver than only accepts mail from a predetermined set of sending addresses."

How is this functionally any different then blacklists? That's just a whitelist instead. So instead of new mail severs "quite likely" being on a blacklist, they are definitely not going to be on a whitelist.

And no, it doesn't matter if isn't a smart idea when you aren't in a position to change anything. Even if you have a perfect technical solution to the problem, you still have to convince every existing major provider to adopt a solution that isn't even a direct problem for them.
We only allow single-side on the website, but we can definitely accommodate most requests by hand. Contact us on Twitter: @teemakers
Interesting idea but think there will be a huge adverse selection problem here. Any startup giving out equity for tasks but which as no cash to pay may not be all that valuable to have equity in.

And I wonder if the same can be said of the job seekers who use this. Really great people get paid for their work and perhaps get equity as well.

Part of me hopes I'm wrong about this as it is an interesting idea.
The joke is that filtering seems to happen prior to spam classification, so you can use filtering to get around this oversight (there are example cited above).
Jrockaway works at Google, where their Java workspaces are roughly equal in total LOC to all Ruby in production everywhere.
First thoughts: make the landing page for this hacker news post the custom editor, and put it right into "edit" mode. The landing page does need work, and the right side box feels a bit wonky and the "get started" button doesn't stand out at all.

The custom maker is your bread and butter and it's pretty sweet, so highlight it. It's definitely faster than the one on Custom Ink! Though I ran into an issue where my final shirt render had the image at the bottom of the shirt rather than the top.

On the price: anyone who has made shirts before would think $29 is way too much for a custom shirt (though I just realized it's AA). I can only suggest searching for way to bring this down a bit.

Good luck, and congrats on launching! I know how gut wrenching it can be to read HN comments after launching your first version.
I feel like expanding that set a little is really only a matter of picking a more distinctive arrangement than a circle. Like 11 would be more readable as 3 vertical lines of 4, then 3, then 4 again. Just varying the shape a little would go a long way towards making them more readable, and you could still fall back to a circle for larger primes.
SHA1 crypto algorithm underpinning Internet security could fall by 2018
I guess it's been fixed. It drove me nuts last time I had to use a Macbook, about a year ago.
I think bottom line, don't work at a place that cares more about the amount of hours you work as opposed to the results that you produce. Life is too short for this shit. There are a lot of job opportunities in companies and teams that understand results and care less about even showing up to the office as long as they are highly productive.
What makes you say you'd love to move to Chicago?
WebViewProxy for iOS - easily intercept requests from UIWebViews
And original author.
That one looks quite good, I like the Ascii art design and the
"the 64M option is an 'advanced option' - we don't have any distros setup that work well in 64 megabytes. You can strip down most distros to the point where they will work well, we just have yet to do so. If you still want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented out link. "
The customizer is pretty sweet. The layout is nice and clean on that end. I think the parallax effect is interesting, but as others have noted probably won't convert as well as it could. You might want to try running some A/B tests with some dramatically different layouts to test the whole spectrum.

Quick Note: You may want to redirect teemakers.com to www.teemakers.com, it throws a security warning.

Good job though! Best of luck with the project!
"The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country."
Definitely. Making a t-shirt seems to be the one action you want people to take from the landing page, so it should be represented as a big honking button saying "CLICK ME!" (More elegantly designed, of course.)
This is the hardest thing to learn. Stepping away from your desk when you're under pressure is just so counter-intuitive. Even if it's often worked before, there's that voice that says "Yes, but it might not this time, and you're under the gun."

Ignore that voice.
Note that .dev is one of the new TLD's being handed out[1]. I also used .dev as my local environment and switched them all over to .local a while ago.

.local[2] was specifically set aside just for this task, and is recognized as a local address by the major browsers (instead of .dev, which often results in a search hit).

[1] http://www.newgtldsite.com/dot-dev-tld-domain-name-extension...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

Edit: just noticed that the .dev hostnames come from Pow, the underlying server. probably not a good idea.
Very interesting! A friend and I chatted about building something like this due to the fact that the JOBS act makes it much more feasible legally. I was thinking about crowd-building entire companies, though. I think your execution is much more practical.

Best of luck! The site looks pretty good!
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Why do you think it's just for famous people or that it's a monopoly? Are you really going to track down a prisoner and ask them what they feel about getting a life sentence?

I don't know why you don't like Quora (or maybe you do and thought I was saying it's a monopoly for famous people? In which case I'd clarify that's not what I believe, nor what I believe I wrote). Do you dislike Quora because you think other people wrongly think it's a monopoly? I don't think anyone thinks that. If you browse the site I think its value will make more sense to you because it has a lot of interesting content, as evidenced by random news sites scraping content from Quora.

I don't have a stake in Quora but I was trying to understand your perspective. It's cool if information/debate is not your goal in this thread. Maybe you want to be erroneously critical because you find it funny or enjoyable- that's fine and doesn't affect me. My perspective is that Quora is fun, well done, and a valuable source of fascinating information despite not being a monopoly.

Quora organizes the information on the internet pretty well too. Even if you can get the same information via googling, you often wouldn't google the information. I've found myself learning a lot about topics I'm interested in that I don't tend to set up Google alerts for. For example, you can find a lot of interesting information about India when you read answers to "What are the most surprising facts Westerners could learn about India?" that would not typically show up if I just googled "India," which I would probably not randomly do anyway.
Draftable - Melbourne, Australia - INTERNs

We're building the equivalent of github for business documents, which turns out to require a surprisingly large amount of cutting-edge computer science.

We’re hiring 4–6 students to work fulltime over the (Australian) summer. Read more at

http://draftable.com/jobs
This is clearly fraud and worth suing and winning over. Charging standard "shop hours" like a mechanic, in advance, is one thing, but just making up a price afterward and pretending it was hours worked?
while editing: http://cl.ly/JyDj
while ordering: http://cl.ly/JzFn

Some kind of rendering issue in Safari on OS X ML.

I don't think the price is outrageous, but since some folks seem to think it is, check out Tultex. Good quality of shirts with a similar fit to American Apparel, and a good bit less expensive.
At least. For me, a picture background offset with a dark background and light text says "temporary landing page" - like your website hasn't been set up yet (see http://launchrock.com or http://grasswire.com to see what I mean).

I would definitely center the "get started" and move it up to just under "express yourself."

I would also change the messaging on the button so it's less ambiguous. Instead of "get started" say something like "start designing." I'm just not sure what "getting started" means. That should up your clickthrough rate and lower your bounce rate.

</marketing>
That's about right. It's true that my experience with Java is not representative, but I'm still unclear what would happen if I did manage to get Eclipse working correctly. Emacs can organize imports, complete symbols, jump to definitions, and things like that. It can't refactor as intelligently as I imagine Eclipse can, but the one time I've needed to do a really big refactor I just did it manually with a Perl one-liner (I should have written a full script, in retrospect) and cleaned up the handful of mistakes when reviewing the diffs.

(That's generally how I feel about Eclipse. It will spend several hours analyzing your source code so it can do a perfect variable rename. But you can get 99.99% of the way there with "perl -pi -ne 's/int foo/int bar/g'" and fix the two cases it broke in seconds. I'd rather not write that and not do the fixup, but with so much cognitive load to make that automatic, it just isn't worth it. Why does refactoring Java require a complicated GUI application with more settings than the Space Shuttle?)

The one feature I really want is something that detects what problem I'm trying to solve and shows me the documentation for libraries that can help.

But really, I wish someone would write an article like "why I switched from vim to Eclipse", but I only ever see ones where the author does the opposite.
What kind of job seeker is this looking to attract?

Equity's great if that equity turns out to be worth something, but it doesn't pay today's bills. If I've got money saved up and I'm looking to take on a labor of passion, chances are really good it's going to be with one or two other people I already know, respect, and trust. If I don't have money saved up then I need cash now, not equity with an uncertain payday.

I get why entrepreneurs would love this, but what's the use case for job seekers? What am I missing?
So back in the dotcom days there was this thing where Startup A would give Startup B some product or service "valued at" some number in exchange for Startup B giving them some product or service "valued at" and equivalent kind of amount. They did this because both A and B could report "sales" of $x revenue with a moderately straight face, even though no money changed hands and it was entirely unclear if either A or B would have paid $X for the service/product they got if they were actually exchanging real money. So for example the startup I was working at got a $120,000 data base installation in exchange for $120,000 worth of banner ads on our site.

There were two problems with that, first the investors were somewhat misled (seeing only the 'sales' numbers and not the actual dollars in the bank number) and two the IRS went after folks who were saying "millions in revenues" for taxes on those revenues which, since they were in trade goods rather than dollars, the companies didn't actually have money to pay the taxes.

Its this latter bit that worries me about this idea. If you give equity for work you have to provide a value for it. You have to give the person a 1099 form (if its over $600) and they may end up owing income tax on an illiquid asset.
That was not the source of confusion.
How much do typical doctors and lawyers make mid-career?
Did Dummies.com Reveal the Microsoft Surface Pricing?
> And for regional quality, I'd bet that they're weakest in the same areas that Apple is weak in.

Yup. Japan on Waze: one big undifferentiated blob.

Waze seems to be a car routing product, and car routing certainly isn't Apple's weak point...
This tool complements WebViewJavascriptBridge really well for HTML5 apps on iOS. (https://github.com/marcuswestin/WebViewJavascriptBridge)
The end of Twitter syndication is nigh
Being late for meetings is incompatible with doing good work. Either you are interfering with other people's work by stiffing them when they need to talk to you, or you are interrupting your productivity by showing up at all.

10x engineers don't do it on short hours. They do it by working harder in an environment where everyone is smart. Cf Claude Shannon ("achievement is exponential, working 10% longer has a compounding effect, like interest in a bank account") or Randy Pausch ("if you want me to tell you the secret of my success, call me any Friday night at my office")
I feel like a lot of what you're talking about is applicable to languages and technologies in general. Advantageous technological knowledge seems to be more about frameworks and domain-specific experience more than anything else; something that a Lisp-er from the 1980's will have quite a steep learning curve ahead for.

Not disagreeing with your point. Just pointing out something that has been bothering me a bit about the fragmented platform market.
Interesting idea but I would have a huge aversion to giving anyone equity who I haven't had some experience working with in the past or I don't see as having a long term role in my company.
Doesn't seem like he needs help attracting readers. #1 on HN.
Looks like I and everyone else had this approximate idea.

Oh well. There's room for lots of businesses. Let one hundred flowers bloom.
I showed my non-programmer/non-vim using friend this extension and he really loves it. Specifically the fF and T commands.